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Gerry Adams
Born 1948
Irish

Political rebel and the leader of the Sinn Fein, the political party closely linked to the Irish Republican Army of Northern Ireland. Some see him as a murderer and terrorist, others as an Irish patriot.

Contemporaries
1759–1997Mary Wollstonecraft
1889–1951Ludwig Wittgenstein
1929–2003Bernard Williams
1914–1981Dame Barbara Ward
1881–1955Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
1880–1958Marie Stopes
1961–1996Princess Diana
1879–1976Ernest Shepard
1856–1950George Bernard Shaw
1911–1977E. F. Schumacher
1875–1965Albert Schweitzer
1893–1957Dorothy Sayers
1902–2003Leni Riefenstahl
1900–1969Stephen Potter
1902–1994Sir Karl Popper
1922–1975Pier Pasolini
1933–1967Joe Orton
1903–1950George Orwell
1883–1973A. S. Neill
1902–1986Alva Myrdal
1898–1987Gunnar Myrdal
1873–1958G. E. Moore
1870–1952Maria Montessori
1882–1956A. A. Milne
1915–1968Thomas Merton
1898–1979Herbert Marcuse
1882–1973Jacques Maritain
1908–1973Anna Magnani
1898–1963C. S. Lewis
1927–1989R. D. Laing
1875–1961Carl Jung
1894–1963Aldous Huxley
1885–1952Karen Horney
1914–2002Thor Heyerdahl
1899–1992Friedrich Hayek
1869–1951André Gide
1910–1986Jean Genet
1895–1982Anna Freud
1888–1965T. S. Eliot
1879–1955Albert Einstein
1912–1990Lawrence Durrell
1868–1952George Norman Douglas
1884–1976Rudolf Bultmann
1878–1965Martin Buber
1888–1988Archibald Brockway
1898–1956Bertolt Brecht
1886–1968Karl Barth
1910–1989Sir A. J. Ayer